
Property of a Gentleman
Le Printemps (Composition lithochronique)
Estimate
1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Gentleman
Óscar Domínguez
(1906 - 1957)
Le Printemps (Composition lithochronique)
signed O Dominguez (lower right) and dated indistinctly (on the overlap)
oil on canvas
22 ⅝ by 27 ⅝ in.
57.5 by 70.2 cm.
Executed in 1939.
The Asociación en Defensa de Óscar Domínguez, e Isidro Hernández, Curator of the Óscar Domínguez Collection (Tenerife), have confirmed the authenticity of this work
Private Collection, France
Savoie Enchères, Chambéry, 15 May 2017, lot 39
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Paris, Galerie Contemporaine, Le Rêve dans l’Art et la Littérature de l'Antiquité au Surréalisme, 1939
Tenerife Espacio de Las Artes, Óscar Domínguez, La conquista del mundo por la imagen, 2023, p. 96; p. 97, illustrated in color (dated 1938)
Málaga, Musée Picasso, Óscar Domínguez, 2025, no. 74, p. 130, illustrated in color
Fernando Castro, Óscar Domínguez y el Surrealismo, Madrid, 1978, no. 68, p. 127, illustrated
José Carlos Guerra Cabrera, Óscar Dominguez: Obra, contexto y tragedia, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 2020, p. 53, illustrated in color
Ángeles García, “El feroz surrealismo olvidado de Óscar Domínguez cotiza al alza,” El País, 19 May 2023, illustrated in color (dated 1938)
José Carlos Guerra Cabrera, Óscar Dominguez. Obra, contexto y tragedia, 2ª edición, corregida y ampliada, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 2026, p. 60, illustrated in color
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